The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-02-08
The Whisky WOrshippers Make a
Desperate Fight for
BacchuS.
They Succeed i'm POstponing Sub.
mission Until February
Fifteenth.
The Senate Bill to Give the Towns
to the Saloons Looked Upon
With Suspicion.
SENATE BILLS.

| Jefferson City, Feb. 3.5ISpecisl. The
senate passed the bill to create q court OF
appeals at Springfield, No.
Senator Porchers bill establishing an
academic department In connection with
the Lincoln institute was also passed.
OUR MILITIA.
The senate committee have under sdvise
ment and expect to report tomorrow
substitute for the militia bill, the general
tenor of the substitute is to render the
militia bill as near a nonentity as possible.
1t makes the militia subordinate to the
civil authorities, reduces the appropria-
one third and abolishes the DISTINGUISHING
and exemption clauses.
SUBMISSION.
In the House to-day the whiskyites came
in with set and grim look upon their
faces that showed they had spent the night
In herculean efforts to devise ways and
means by which they might save their
God, John Barleycorn, from disenthrone-
ment and be permitted, yet little while
to bow down, his humble slaves. Every
body knew that the prohibition question
would come up and of course everybody
was at the capitol when the session opened
And while the submissionists in their in
nocence believed that the display of the
popular will and voice OF the majority had
been sufficiently made in the vote
of yesterday to utterly preclude the posi-
bility of representative of a republican
government attempting to gainsay II. The
other side of the house, with cunning
born of his majesty, Bacchus, were quietly
scheming how to successfully eyade that
power and like a condemned felon, save
their necks from the halter to the last mo-
nent at any cost.
When the question was finally brought
up a desperate struggle began and soon the
house was In wild confusion. A molten
was made to postpone the bill until Feb
ruary Is, but this brought out a motion
for the previous question and the
chair ruled that to carry it required
two-thirds vote, this was no.
given and after long wrangle the bill
went over to the 18th.
McGINNS MAD.
Senator McGinuis to-day telegrsphed
his attorney TO at once begin suit against
the St. Joseph Gasette for $4,000 damages
for malicious libel in the publication of its
@open letter TO the general assembly," 1t
is said that McGinnis is in dead earnest
and proposes to push things.
THE SALOON BILL.
There has been considerable comment
upon the so-called "locsl option" bill pass
ed by the senate yesterday. Prohibitionists
declare that il is not only subterfuge, but
one which, if it should become a law,
would upset every restraint now imposed
upon saloons, and give into their hands
the power TO run saloons in every town In
defiance of all law. Not only this, but
they say that the bill is clearly unconstitu-
tional, and makes class of special legisla-
ton that is absolutely prohibited in e1-
press words by the state constitution The
chances are that when the house takes hold
Of il, they will give it a complete expose
and set down upon.
Also Senator Aliens bill providing for
An assistant county councillor in counties
having $4,000 inhabitants. 1t also passed
his bill in relation to macadamiZing roads.
Ii makes it the duty of the county court to
pay three-fourths of the cost of macadami-
ring a road whenever the citizens along
The road raise one-fourth of the money ne
cessary for that purpose.